Health effects of residential wood smoke particles: the importance of combustion conditions and physicochemical particle properties

Table 1 Physicochemical properties reported to influence the biological effects of PM in experimental studies

Physicochemical properties	References
Particle size	[29–32]
Surface area per mass	[32–34]
Crystal structure	[35–39]
Chemical composition
- metals	[41, 42]
- organic compounds	[40, 43–45]
Solubility	[50, 51]

The table lists the most relevant physicochemical particle properties and the references used in the text. For a more comprehensive reference list please refer to one of the reviews [16, 17, 27, 28].

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